_THOMAS BIBB II._____+
| (1695 - 1720)
_THOMAS BIBB III.____|_REBECCA THOMAS _____
| (1716 - 1781) m 1737 (1699 - ....)
_JOHN BIBB __________|
| (1743 - 1781) m 1767|
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| |_SARAH MARTIN _______|_____________________
| (1718 - 1786) m 1737
_JOHN BIBB __________|
| (1778 - 1848) m 1806|
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| |_ELIZABETH MARR _____|
| m 1767 |
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| (1811 - ....)
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_JAMES DEEN __________+
| (1825 - 1863) m 1847
_JOHN HENRY DEEN _______|_HULDA GREY __________
| (1862 - 1895) m 1887 (1824 - 1863)
_DOWNEY D. (TOOK) DEEN _|
| (1891 - 1950) |
| | _ISAAC I. MOODY ______+
| | | (1847 - 1890) m 1870
| |_ADELINE (ADDIE) MOODY _|_MARTHA ELMIRA MILES _
| (1872 - 1935) m 1887 (1847 - 1920)
_JOHN HERBERT LAMAR DEEN _|
| (1915 - ....) m 1934 |
| | ______________________
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| | _PATRICK L. SMITH ______|______________________
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| |_ADDIE (ADA) SMITH _____|
| (1893 - 1920) |
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|--CONNIE YVONNIE DEEN
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| _S. D. KILGORE _________|
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|_VIOLET INEZ KILGORE _____|
(1917 - ....) m 1934 |
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|--JOHN NOBLE EDMONDSON
| (1903 - ....)
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_JOSHUA A. GEIGER ___+
| (1798 - ....) m 1825
_ALEXANDER PAUL GEIGER _|_MARY ANN LEWIS _____
| (1825 - ....) m 1849 (1805 - ....)
_ODIE CECIL GEIGER _____|
| (1855 - ....) |
| | _____________________
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| |_EMMA JEAN BARKSDALE ___|_____________________
| (1829 - ....) m 1849
_HUGH GEIGER ________|
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| |_MRS. ELIZABETH GEIGER _|
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| |________________________|_____________________
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|--ROBIN GEIGER
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| _____________________
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_RICHARD HOLLAND ________________|
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| |_____________________|__________________________
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_ZACHARY GRANTHAM HOLLAND _|
| (1876 - 1941) m 1900 |
| | __________________________
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| | _____________________|__________________________
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| |_BETHANY BARNES _________________|
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| | __________________________
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| |_____________________|__________________________
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|--MYRTICE OVEDA HOLLAND
| (1914 - ....)
| _MARTIN DEEN _____________+
| | (1802 - 1864) m 1822
| _JAMES DEEN _________|_FRANCIS ELIZABETH HIGGS _
| | (1825 - 1863) m 1847 (1802 - 1880)
| _DANIEL MARTIN DEEN _____________|
| | (1857 - 1930) m 1880 |
| | | __________________________
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| | |_HULDA GREY _________|__________________________
| | (1824 - 1863) m 1847
|_FLORA MAUDE DEEN _________|
(1883 - 1966) m 1900 |
| _EZEKIAL P. TUTEN ________
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| _DAVID RIVERS TUTEN _|_NANCY RIVERS ____________
| | (1841 - 1880) m 1861
|_MARTHA ELNORA ( MELNORA) TUTEN _|
(1866 - 1928) m 1880 |
| _JOHN MILES ______________
| | (1811 - 1881) m 1831
|_FLORA E. MILES _____|_HARRIETT KEMP ___________
(1843 - 1908) m 1861 (1813 - 1905)
_WILLIS MILES _________+
| (1839 - 0864) m 1859
_JOHN MILLENDER MILES __|_ELIZABETH M. SELLERS _
| (1860 - 1942) m 1882 (1842 - ....)
_LEE WARREN MILES ___|
| (1900 - ....) m 1921|
| | _WILLIAM J. CARTER ____
| | |
| |_LOUVENIA (LOU) CARTER _|_______________________
| (1862 - 1947) m 1882
_BILLY WARREN MILES _|
| (1941 - ....) m 1964|
| | _______________________
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| | ________________________|_______________________
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| |_MAMIE MAE PURDUE ___|
| (1904 - ....) m 1921|
| | _______________________
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| |________________________|_______________________
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|
|--ELANA LOUSIE MILES
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| _______________________
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| ________________________|_______________________
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|_SANDRA CAIN ________|
m 1964 |
| _______________________
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[777] living - details excluded
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_CHARLES SMITH ______|
| m 1824 |
| | ______________________________
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| |__________________________|______________________________
|
_RANSOME SMITH ______|
| (1849 - ....) |
| | _JOHN CAMPBELL STRICKLAND SR._+
| | | (1728 - 1788) m 1747
| | _JOEL"JOSEPH" STRICKLAND _|_ELIZABETH CAMPBELL __________
| | | (1758 - 1835) m 1788 (1729 - ....)
| |_ELIZA STRICKLAND ___|
| (1794 - ....) m 1824|
| | ______________________________
| | |
| |_ELIZABETH STRICKLAND ____|______________________________
| (1758 - 1840) m 1788
|
|--HARLAD SMITH
| (1872 - ....)
| ______________________________
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| __________________________|______________________________
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| _MR. SWEAT __________|
| | |
| | | ______________________________
| | | |
| | |__________________________|______________________________
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|_ELENDER SWEAT ______|
(1850 - ....) |
| ______________________________
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| __________________________|______________________________
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|_MARY SWEAT _________|
(1819 - ....) |
| ______________________________
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|__________________________|______________________________
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1880 WARE CO., GA. CENSUS
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_ALFRED T. SUMMERSILL _|
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_WILLIAM SUMMERSILL _|
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| |_LYDIA A. POWELL ______|
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|--HATTIE SUMMERSILL
| (1893 - ....)
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|_MARTHA ENNIS _______|
(1859 - ....) |
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_MOSES TAGGART ______|_____________________
| (1770 - 1841) m 1790
_JAMES TAGGART ______|
| (1793 - ....) |
| | _MR. MCCASLAN _______
| | |
| |_MARY MCCASLAN ______|_MRS. MARY MCCASLAN _
| (.... - 1833) m 1790
_WILLIAM TAGGART ____|
| (1820 - ....) |
| | _____________________
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| | _____________________|_____________________
| | |
| |_EILZABETH CALLAHAN _|
| (1794 - ....) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_____________________|_____________________
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|--WILLIAM TAGGART
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| _____________________
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| _____________________|_____________________
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| | |_____________________|_____________________
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|_JANE MCCASLIN ______|
(1834 - ....) |
| _____________________
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| (1820 - 1910)
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[236]
History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 150-155
JOSEPH SAMUEL THURMOND.
Joseph Samuel Thurmond was born May 9, 1855, in Fayette county, Virginia (now
West Virginia). His father, W. D. Thurmond, was a native of Amherst county,
Virginia, as was also his mother, both of whom were of English descent. His
mother, who was the daughter of Charles Bibb, moved with her father to
Fayette county, in 1834, settling at Bowyer's Ferry (now Sewell). where for
several years he kept the ferry. He later bought a tract of land in what is
known now as the Gatewood neighborhood, and having built a house and cleared
out a farm, resided there the greater part of his life.
In the year 1845 Philip Thurmond, the father of W. D. Thurmond, moved from
Amherst county and settled in Fayette county, where he spent the remainder of
his life. A few years later W. D. Thurmond also caine across the Alleghanies
and made his residence with his father. He engaged in farming, and while
plowing corn accidentally discovered the famous New River coal, and digging
some of it, he took it to a blacksmith, who used it for fuel in his shop.
This, it is said, was the first discovery of the now world-famed coal and the
first purpose for which it was used. Today the largest coal operation in the
New River field is located on the same property upon which it was first
discovered.
In February, 1852, W. D. Thurmond married Miss Sarah J., daughter of Charles
Bibb, above mentioned, and having already purchased a farm at 50 cents per
acre, and paid for it by laboring in the salt works on the Great Kanawha
river at 50 cents per day, he settled down to farming and at odd times
surveying. To this union six children were born, viz.: James W., Mary E.,
Joseph S., Charles T., Lucy A. and Sarah F., the last named dying at two
years of age. At that time educational facilities were poor and the Civil war
coming on about the time the older children were of school age, they were
deprived of several years which should have been spent in school.
Soon after the outbreak of the Civil war, Mr. Thurmond organized a company of
soldiers and became its captain. This company was composed, principally, of
men from Monroe, Fayette, Raleigh and Greenbrier counties, Summers county not
having been organized at that time. Acting as an independent company, but
subject to orders from Gen. John F. Echols, its operations were confined
mainly along the border between the two contending armies and might be termed
a border patrol.
Early in the war, for some unknown reason, the commander of the Union army
stationed at Fayetteville sent a squad of soldiers to Captain Thurmond's
house, and forcibly ejecting Mrs. Thurmond and her six small children from
the building, and throwing a few articles of furniture out, applied the
torch, and in a few minutes the house was reduced to ashes. The family was
removed temporarily to the home of Mrs. Thurmond's father and later to Monroe
county, where they remained throughout the war and until the fall of 1870,
when they returned to their old home in Fayette county.
At the close of the war Captain Thurmond was homeless and penniless, but not
friendless. and he often said that had it not been for his friends his family
would have suffered for the necessaries of life; but with credit extended to
him and a determination to succeed, he managed to take care of his family and
in his latter days to earn a competency. He died at Minden, Fayette county,
May 14, 1910, in his ninetieth year.
At the age of eleven the subject of this sketch entered the public schools,
which consisted of four months a year, and in which nothing but the
elementary branches of study were taught. During the summer he wore homespun
linen clothes, made by his mother's own hands, went barefoot and hoed com. At
the age of twenty-one he entered Shelton College, at St. Albans, and had for
his instructor the late Dr. P. B. Reynolds (let it be said right here that
this State has never had a more profound thinker nor a better instructor than
he), and for fellow students Dr. George B. Foster, of the Chicago University;
Rev. John R. McCutcheon; Senator W. E. Chilton; Prof. E. C. Haworth, now of
Marshall College, and Hon. James H. Stewart, now commissioner of agriculture
of this State, and many others, some of whom have crossed the "Great Divide",
and others who have been swallowed up in this big business world and lost
from his sight; but upon the whole, a majority of them have made good. Mr.
Thurmond, having very limited means, spent but two years at Shelton, after
which he returned home and engaged in farming during the summer and teaching
school in the winter. Still, the school term was hut four months a year and
the salary of a grade one teacher but $25 per month. He followed teaching for
three years, one of which he served as a member of the board of examiners. He
then began the study of surveying and engineering and for several years spent
all his time surveying. About this time the development of the Fayete county
coal lands began to attract attention and a scramble for wild lands, which,
hitherto, had been considered worthless, began. The docket of the court was
crowded with suits to determine the title of lands and a great demand for
surveyors followed. Mr. Thurmond had, perhaps, as much to do in establishing
the lines and corners of the old surveys as any other man in the county, and
often served as a witness in court in land litigation.
It was while engaged in surveying the lands of the late Governor Samuel Price
that he first met his much esteemed and honored friend, the late John
Preston. Spending two weeks together in the rough mountains of Fayette and
Raleigh counties, often thirsty and sometimes hungry, resulted in a
friendship which lasted thirty-three years, the time of Mr. Preston's demise.
When the building of the railroad hridge at Thurmond opened for development
the vast coal fields of Loop creek, he acquired some stock in the Star Coal
Co. and took the position of mine fore-man and engineer at the mines, holding
this position for three years, when he sold his stock, resigned his position,
and accepted the position of general manager with the late William P. Rend,
of Chicago, in the development of his mines at Minden, in Fayette county.
These mines are located on the W. D. Thurmond farm, the land upon which the
New River coal was first discovered, and are the largest producers in the New
River field, having a capacity of 4,000 tons per day.
After three years of arduous and strenuous labor here, and getting the mines
in a good state of development, Mr. Thurmond resigned his position and
entered upon the unenviable task of catering to the wants of an unthankful
public as proprietor of a hotel. It required but a few years to convince him
that he was not fitted for hotel work, and, leasing the property, he moved to
Greenbrier county, and located in the town of Alderson. He purchased of Mrs.
Fannie Lipps a farm lying in the suburbs of the town, known as the "Old John
Alderson Place", upon which stood a stone house, one of the oldest in the
county, built in the year 1788. Last year this old landmark was torn down and
in its stead a modern brick residence was erected.
In the year 1880 he married Miss Elizabeth J., the daughter of Rev. A. N.
Rippetoe, of Kessler's Cross Lanes, Nicholas county, West Virginia, and by
this union ten children were born, six of whom are now living. On October
19, 1900, Mrs. Thurmond died at iMinden, and on March 26, 1902, he was united
in marriage to Miss Letha Lee, daughter of J. B. Huddleston, of Fayette
county. By this union there are no children.
In his religious belief he has always held to the Baptist faith, and at the
age of sixteen united with the Bethel Baptist Church, afterward being a
charter member of the Oak Hill church, from which he was dismissed by letter
to join the Greenbrier church, of which he is now a member. At the meeting of
the Greenbrier Association, in the fall of 1914, he was elected moderator of
that body, which position he held two years. Politically, he is an
uncompromising Democrat and has since his maturity been an active participant
in all campaigns.
In the election of 1914 he was nominated and elected to the House of
Delegates, with A. E. Huddleston, of White Sulphur, as his colleague, and at
the following election, in 1916, was re-elected to the same position, with
A.B.C. Bray, of Ronceverte, as his colleague. The Democrats at this election
succeeded in electing a majority in the House of Delegates, and in the
following January, when that body convened, Mr. Thurmond was elected speaker.
Mr. Thurmond relates the following reminiscences: Just before the Civil war
the newspapers were full of news about the Yankees, and his mother read to
him about them so much that he formed the opinion that they were not men, but
some kind of animal. Imagine his surprise to find upon seeing them that
they were but common human beings. Their first appearance at his father's
house was one morning when his father and several of his friends were
expecting and watching for them. Great consternation was caused when the
advance guard appeared in sight and every man took to his heels as fast as he
could run, and the Yankees opened fire on them. To young Thurmond to shoot
was to kill, and it was some time after the firing had ceased, and his father
and friends were, perhaps, half a mile away and safely hidden in the woods,
before he could be convinced that they were not all killed.
At one time the Thurmond family lived one mile west of Alderson, on the land
of Thomas Johnson, known then as the "Lane Place". Joe and his brother, Jim,
had always been anxious to see a hattIe, and one day, when the sound of
musketry suddenly burst upon their ears, they soon realized that a fight was
on down at
the river where the town of Glenary now stands, so they immediately made a
dash for the battlefield. They ran down the slope through a woodland as fast
as they could go, and as they emerged from the woods into the open field a
minnie ball struck the root of a large oak tree within a few feet of them,
and others were tearing up the ground all around. Undaunted, they pressed
for-ward, but a moment later they saw John T. Myles, now a citizen of
Alderson, but then a soldier in Captain Thurmond's company, coming hurriedly
towards them. In a loud and angry tone he ordered them to turn and run for
their lives, which they did without any argument. It developed that a
detachment from Captain Thurmond's company, led by Lieutenant Bibb, had
attacked a company of Yankees across the river and were having a hot skirmish
with them. Mr. Myles had received a severe wound in the shoulder and was
retiring from the field, traveling in a direct line between them and the
Yankees, and the balls which fell so close to them had been fired at him.
This was near as they came to a battle, but on several occasions were close
enough to hear the roar of artillery.
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|
_EDGAR TYSON ____________|______________________________
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_PHINES CLINTON TYSON ____|
| (1897 - 1962) m 1918 |
| | ______________________________
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| |_MARGARET ALISON ________|______________________________
|
_CLIFFORD PERNELL TYSON _|
| (1922 - 1979) m 1943 |
| | _DAVID WASHINGTON HOPKINS ____
| | |
| | _DAVE WILLIAM HOPKINS ___|_MRS. BETSY HOPKINS __________
| | | m 1893
| |_KATIE ELIZABETH HOPKINS _|
| (1899 - 1972) m 1918 |
| | _WILLIAM F. BLANKENSHIP ______
| | | (1842 - ....) m 1873
| |_NANNY JANE BLANKENSHIP _|_JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH HARTLEY _
| (1873 - 1956) m 1893 (1854 - 1885)
|
|--ROGER SHIPTON TYSON
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| ______________________________
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| _JAMES CLINCH ___________|______________________________
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| _JAMES SHIPTON CLINCH ____|
| | (1887 - 1950) |
| | | ______________________________
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| | |_MINNIE SHIPTON _________|______________________________
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|_IRENE MAY CLINCH _______|
(1923 - 1992) m 1943 |
| ______________________________
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| _CHARLES BUTCHER ________|______________________________
| | (1874 - 1960)
|_MAY BUTCHER _____________|
(1899 - 1976) |
| ______________________________
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|_MRS. MARY ANN BUTCHER __|______________________________
[1372] living - details excluded
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_FRANK PIERCE VANDERGRIFF _|
| (1892 - 1970) m 1921 |
| | _______________________
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| | _________________________________|_______________________
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| |______________________________|
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| |_________________________________|_______________________
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|--FLOYD PIERCE VANDERGRIFF
| (1924 - 1924)
| _GEORGE N. WHEDBEE SR._+
| | (1805 - 1842)
| _WILLIAM THOMAS "BILLY" WHEDBEE _|_NANCY GURLEY _________
| | (1838 - 1902)
| _BENJAMIN ROBERTS T. WHEDBEE _|
| | (1868 - 1911) m 1894 |
| | | _______________________
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| | |_SUSANNA FEILDS _________________|_______________________
| | (1841 - 1902)
|_MARTHA ROSANA WHEDBEE ____|
(1904 - 1988) m 1921 |
| _GEORGE N. WHEDBEE JR._+
| | (1835 - 1862) m 1852
| _WILLIAM WELLINGTON WHEDBEE _____|_SARAH "SALLIE" MOURY _
| | (1854 - 1944) m 1873
|_GENEVA ELIZABETH WHEDBEE ____|
(1878 - 1965) m 1894 |
| _______________________
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|_MARTHA A. PENNELL ______________|_______________________
m 1873
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_GEORGE WASHINGTON WINN _|
| (1809 - ....) m 1830 |
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_JOSEPH FRANKLIN WINN _|
| (1834 - 1877) m 1860 |
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| |_RHONDA FULLER __________|
| (1810 - ....) m 1830 |
| | __
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| |__|__
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|--FRANK WINN
| (1874 - ....)
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| _________________________|
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| | | __
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| | |__|__
| |
|_FRANCIS E. HART ______|
(1835 - ....) m 1860 |
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